Hedberg Talk: Incorrigible Rogues in the Basement

Julia Fredersdorff is a Melbourne-born violinist who studied baroque violin with Lucinda Moon at the Victorian College of the Arts, before travelling to the Netherlands to study with Enrico Gatti at The Royal Conservatorium in The Hague. Based in Paris for close to a decade, Julia freelanced with some of the finest European ensembles, such as Les Talens Lyriques, Les Folies Françoises, Le Concert d’Astrée, Le Parlement de Musique, Ensemble Matheus, Les Paladins, Il Complesso Barocco, New Dutch Academy, Ensemble Aurora and Bach Concentus.

Now resident again in Australia, Julia is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian baroque ensemble, Van Diemen’s Band. She is a founding member of the chamber ensemble Ironwood, the twice ARIA-nominated baroque trio Latitude 37, and founder and former Artistic Director of the annual Peninsula Summer Music Festival on the Mornington Peninsula. Julia has appeared in major arts festivals around Australia and New Zealand and has toured extensively across Europe, from Reykjavík to Wroclaw, Madeira to Venice.

Julia has participated in nearly forty international recordings for the labels BIS, Virgin Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Accent, Accord, Naïve, Erato, Passacaille, Ambronay, ABC Classic, Vexations840 and Tall Poppies.

Dr Chrissie Berryman is undertaking university research in historical musicology following a successful career in government policy. Chrissie’s research investigates how beliefs about occult symbolism, witchcraft and women were represented in recreational instrumental music of Jacobean England. Her research, steeped in more than 400 years of history, crosses the disciplinary boundaries of musicology, historical sociology, gender and literary criticism.

Chrissie has regularly presented her research at the Musicological Society of Australia and holds their 2021 Tasmanian research prize.

Chrissie has worked closely with Julia Fredersdorff for a number of years to establish the business and administrative side of Van Diemen's Band. She enjoys amateur music making, plays cello and viola da gamba and is a tutti cellist in the Hobart Chamber Orchestra.

Dr Katrina Schlunke is an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania (School of Creative Arts and Media).

Katrina writes and researches about the interconnections between art, writing, race and Indigenous interventions. Her most recent essay is Beside Extinction: Making, Materiality and Mourning in ‘The Labyrinth’ in Reading the Work of Amanda Lohrey, Sydney University Press, (in Press). 

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